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The Minister of Finance has pledged to “fix” the problem of publicly funded organisations failing to keep up to date with their annual audits. Curtis Dickinson told a post-Budget meeting of business leaders: “I’m not happy about it. We have had chall...

A total of $330,500 in uncashed cheques were left “in a drawer” at a government department, a report to Parliament has revealed. The report by the Efficiency Committee said only $50,000 of the owed cash was claimed back and accused the Government of ...

Government ministers took aim at the One Bermuda Alliance’s Reply to the Budget last night. Curtis Dickinson, the Minister of Finance, said that it was easy to simply call for cost cuts, but much more difficult when the human impact was weighed. Mr D...

Curtis Dickinson told a business audience yesterday that he would have liked to have started from scratch with tax reform, rather than modify the existing code. In his maiden Budget Statement last Friday, Mr Dickinson introduced none of the new taxes...

The 2019-20 Budget Statement is under way. Curtis Dickinson, Minister of Finance, is making his maiden Budget presentation in the House of Assembly. The Royal Gazette is providing a live stream and text updates on this page, as well as Twitter updat...

A proposal to slap a tax on rented homes in the Budget has been taken off the table, the Minister of Finance said yesterday. Curtis Dickinson made the announcement after complaints that landlords had tried to use the suggested levy as an excuse to ra...

Landlords were warned today not to pass a proposed rental tax on to their tenants. The Government said tenants have called Consumer Affairs reporting that their landlord has informed them their rent will be increased “due to the new tax” from March 1...

Hundreds of people have registered opposition to a rental tax after a seniors organisation called on its members to air their views. Age Concern Bermuda asked it members for their views on the suggestion, included in a pre-Budget report from the Mini...

A proposed tax on rental income could cost people their homes, the finance minister has been warned. Curtis Dickinson was told that any new tax would hurt people who depended on income from an apartment to pay their mortgages. Paulette Robinson said:...

New taxes could be in the pipeline for the 2019-20 Budget, the Minister of Finance said yesterday. Curtis Dickinson said in his pre-Budget report that possible taxes included one on homes where the main function was for rental to tourists or to empl...